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An unrivaled arsenal of Visual Effects tools for Mac.

FxFactory includes scads of fabulous filters, elegant effects and easy-to-use generators. What really makes FxFactory Pro unique though, is the option to design your own plug-ins to your specifications, customizing them to your needs for multiple hosts: Final Cut Pro, Motion, Premiere Pro, and After Effects.... all without knowing how to create a single line of code!

Highlights

FxFactory powers a vast collection of visual and audio effects plugins for Final Cut Pro, Motion, Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. The FxFactory application offers an elegant and convenient way to browse our products.

Hardware Acceleration

FxFactory Pro effects are accelerated using the graphics card for unbeatable previewing and rendering performance.

Presets

FxFactory Pro plug-ins ship with many built-in presets, a time-saving feature to try new looks with minimal effort.

Save your own presets to disc and recreate the same look later. Presets created in one host can be reused in all other supported hosts.

Unique Features

FxFactory Pro is the first visual effects package that lets you customize and create your own plug-ins for Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Express and Adobe After Effects without writing a single line of code.

The same powerful tools that allowed us to build FxFactory Pro plug-ins are available to you: create plug-ins that are specific to your projects, share them easily with other users.

One License, Multiple Hosts

A single license to FxFactory Pro unlocks its powerful plug-ins in all supported hosts: Final Cut Pro, Motion, Final Cut Express and Adobe After Effects.

FxFactory 7: What’s New for Premiere Pro Users

FxFactory 7 brings benefits in performance and usability to our plugins in all video apps, with a special focus on Premiere Pro. As with all new versions of FxFactory, this is a free update.

FxFactory 7 is a free update for all users running macOS 10.12 Sierra or later.

Description

The Mercury Playback Engine in Premiere Pro

All recent versions of Premiere Pro provide GPU acceleration through the Mercury Playback Engine. Most recent graphics cards are supported, while a “Software Only” setting remains available as a fallback for those days when the graphics hardware seems not to be cooperating.

On the Mac, Premiere Pro currently supports GPU acceleration via OpenCL or Metal, two of the most widely adopted graphics technologies on the platform. To view and change the current Mercury Playback Engine setting, look under the File menu for the Project → General command:

GPU Acceleration options are available near the top of the Project Settings window, under the General → Video Rendering and Playback section:

OpenCL is the default setting on most configurations, as it currently provides the best balance between performance and compatibility with the widest variety of third-party products. If you are currently running macOS 10.12 Sierra, we recommend OpenCL as it happens to provide the best performance as well, i.e. the quickest renders.

Less time for coffee?

FxFactory 7 supports GPU acceleration through Metal as well. Metal is Apple’s newest graphics technology, and if your system is running macOS 10.13 High Sierra and Premiere Pro CC 2018, Metal will give you the best performance. Unfortunately, few other third-parties outside FxFactory support Metal GPU acceleration in Premiere Pro, and you may have to factor those other plugins into your decision. No matter what tools you depend on, either OpenCL or Metal will provide a great boost to your workflow. While we observed a 5-10% advantage of Metal over OpenCL on macOS 10.13 High Sierra, both GPU acceleration options are up to 10x faster than “Software Only”.

Does my Mac support Metal?

Most of our products become GPU accelerated in Premiere Pro simply by upgrading to FxFactory 7, at no extra cost. Some will demonstrate a more dramatic jump in performance than others, such as our Wipology transitions.

Mercury Engine GPU acceleration is supported on Premiere Pro CC 2017 version 11.1 or later. We highly recommend Premiere Pro CC 2018 as it provides better performance, better compatibility with macOS 10.13 High Sierra, and is is a free update for all Creative Cloud users.

Mercury GPU acceleration in After Effects

The most recent version of After Effects has allowed third-parties to tap into the GPU accelerated pipeline provided by the Mercury Engine. All graphics cards shipped by Apple in recent years are supported. FxFactory enables additional GPU acceleration for our plugins via both OpenCL and Metal.

Mercury GPU acceleration is enabled by default in After Effects. To switch graphics technology, look under the File menu for the Project Settings command:

GPU options are the very first available in the Project Settings window, under Video Rendering and Effects:

We recommend that you choose Mercury GPU Acceleration (Metal) on all Macs running macOS 10.13 High Sierra or macOS 10.14 Mojave, as it provides the best performance. OpenCL currently provides the best balance between performance and compatibility for those still running macOS 10.12 Sierra.

Does my Mac support Metal?

Most of our products will take advantage of Mercury GPU acceleration in After Effects simply by upgrading to FxFactory 7.1, at no extra cost. After Effects CC 2019 version 16.0 or later is required.

System Requirements

For FxFactory 7

macOS Sierra, macOS High Sierra and macOS Mojave
Version 10.12, 10.13 and 10.14

Final Cut Pro
Version 10.3 or later

Motion
Version 5.3 or later

After Effects CC 2015, CC 2017, CC 2018 and CC 2019
Version 13.5 or later

Earns the Microfilmmaker Magazine's Award of Superiority

Noise Industries is truly setting the bar in plug-in management and versatility. While there are other plug-in producers and certainly other excellent products, the level of quality displayed by NI and their development partners in the FX Factory plug-in management software is definitely making Noise Industries the one to beat. Having personally used NI and their development partners products for several years now, the most impressive thing to me is the level of dedication that they expend towards making their users' lives easier. This means help files, tutorials, explanations and product usability.

Combined with reasonable pricing, it’s tough to go wrong. I fully recommend downloading the demos and taking it out for a spin. The only problem you’ll have is trying to fully explore the bounty of excellence at your fingertips within the 15 day trial period.

Change Log

FxFactory 7.1.1 This version delivers bug fixes and improvements for all users.

FxFactory 7.1 brings Mercury GPU acceleration and 32-bit float color support to our most popular plugins for After Effects. Our effects render more than twice as fast in After Effects CC 2019. This free update improves performance in Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro as well.

FxFactory 7.0.8 This version improves support for Final Cut Pro 14.4.4 and Motion 5.4.2.

FXFactory 7.0.6 This version introduces support for macOS 10.14 Mojave.

FxFactory 7.0 This version introduces OpenCL and Metal GPU acceleration in Premiere Pro CC 2017 and CC 2018, better support for macOS 10.13 High Sierra and numerous UI and performance enhancements for plugins running in Final Cut Pro, Motion and After Effects. First version to require macOS Sierra 10.12 or later. Mercury Engine GPU acceleration requires Premiere Pro CC version 11.1 or later.

FxFactory 6.0.4 This version delivers bug fixes and improvements for all users.

FxFactory 6.0.3 This version delivers bug fixes and improvements for all users.

FxFactory 6.0.2 This version delivers bug fixes and improvements for all users.

FxFactory 6.0.1 This version delivers official support for After Effects CC 2017 and Premiere Pro CC 2017.

FxFactory 6.0 This version delivers official support for OS X El Capitan macOS Sierra Version 10.11 and 10.12

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